Providing carefully selected groceries and delivering them straight to your front door, Marley Spoon is a recipe box company that delivers delicious, balanced recipes with all of the necessary ingredients to cook at home, served in exact measurements as to avoid food waste.

Beginning at £29.80 for a box that includes enough produce to make two meals for two people, subscribers are entitled to free UK delivery with produce arriving weekly, following an email with meal choices based on the user’s taste preferences. With this, the menu changes on a weekly basis to provide variation, just login to the website and find the chosen recipe with a photographic step-by-step guide to aid the cooking process, as well as a difficulty level and calorie count for each dish. What’s more, like most food delivery companies, you’re also given the choice to skip a week’s delivery or pause the service at any given time.

Until the end of July, Marley Spoon’s recipe boxes have been designed to be cooked on the barbecue, though they can also be cooked indoors using a griddle pan. And although the recipes change weekly, the below recipe provides an example of what can be expected from Marley Spoon’s summer BBQ boxes.

Ingredients

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves 2

Honey, 30g

White wine vinegar, 30ml

Mayonnaise, 30g

Wholegrain mustard, 40g

New potatoes, 500g

Fennel bulb, 1

Fresh parsley, 20g

Celery sticks, 3

Granny Smith apple, 1

Chicken drumsticks, 6

Salt & black pepper

Olive oil

Method

Preheat your BBQ or oven to 240C/fan 220C/gas 9. Using a sharp knife, score the chicken to the bone 2-3 times. Line a roasting tray with foil, transfer the chicken to the roasting tray, season with salt and pepper and precook for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, halve the potatoes and quarter any larger ones. Place in a medium saucepan, cover with water and bring to a boil over a high heat. Simmer for 8-10 minutes until just tender. Drain and leave in the colander to release some steam, set to one side.

While the potatoes are cooking, mix the honey with the mustard and 1tbsp of oil, season well with salt and pepper. Remove the chicken from the BBQ/oven, spoon the marinade over the chicken and return for another 15 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through with the juices running clear.

In the meantime, thinly slice the celery and finely chop the parsley. Halve the apple, remove the core and cut into 1cm chunks. Transfer everything to a large bowl.

Halve the fennel lengthwise, then cut each part into 4 wedges. Toss the fennel in 1tbsp of olive oil and some salt and pepper. Grill for 3-4 minutes on each side, until charred and cooked through.

Mix the mayonnaise, vinegar and 1tbsp of olive oil in a small bowl. Add the dressing and cooked potatoes to the bowl with the celery. Season with salt and pepper and stir to combine. Serve the salad alongside the chicken and the charred fennel.

Recipe by Marley Spoon UK chefs, further information can be found at marleyspoon.co.uk.

Jonathan is food editor and critic for The London Economic.
Since leaving school, Jonathan has run and contributed towards a number of new music blogs and has written online features for publications such as The Guardian, GQ and Q Magazine.